Sam and Max is often self-proclaimed as gaming's first sitcom and it's great...so yes it is possible to make a game comedy...just wanna know if it's possible to make a game comedy in a different genre.
Considering how many Wiimotes are in the hands of housewives it's surprising Nintendo hasn't kidnapped Jennifer Aniston just for this purpose.Flatfrog said:*Shudders*GonzoGamer said:It could be done. I don't know if it would be any good but it could be done.
Of course, you wouldn't be the protagonist. More like a third person/god or something like sims. Sim3 could actually be played as a comedy by Flatfrog's standards.
I'm kind of happy it's not done though. The movie games are bad enough. Could you imagine games based on sitcoms?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not by any standards suggesting that! I can count on one hand the movie tie-ins I thought were any good. Obviously you wouldn't want to actually copy a sitcom, I was thinking more about the structure.
Mostly I've been won over by responses here - you're all correct, I was too limiting in my definition of what constitutes comedy, and I should have narrowed it down a bit to 'comedy of errors'. The whole thing started in my head because I was thinking about the Extra Credits video where they were talking about sex in games, and thinking there's a good reason why it's generally avoided and awful when it's included. And that set me thinking about the 'rom-com' story and how impossible it would be to make an interactive rom-com. And then I thought 'or any comedy'. But I agree I cast my net of impossibility a bit too wide at that point...
So there's a revised and perhaps more interesting challenge: could there ever be a rom-com in game form (or other interactive media)? Leaving aside the question of whether you would want to, of course, but I'd say if you could, there would probably be some people with money that would like to talk to you...